Rising Asia Journal
Rising Asia Foundation
ISSN 2583-1038
PEER REVIEWED | MULTI-DISCIPLINARY | EASTERN FOCUS

VOLUME 4, ISSUE 3 (AUTUMN)
SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 2024 

CONTENTS

COMMENTARY

ASAD LATIF,
Senior Singapore Journalist
BANGLADESH IN THE INDIC SPHERE
Perils of the South Asian Hegemon

SPECIAL ISSUE

POSTWAR MUSIC IN VIETNAM AND THE DIASPORA
GUEST EDITOR: TUAN HOANG, Pepperdine University, California

 INTRODUCTION
TUAN HOANG
FIFTY YEARS SINCE NATIONAL REUNIFICATION AND THE END OF THE VIETNAM WAR

JASON GIBBS,
San Francisco Public Library
“HE STILL LIVES”
Vietnamese Songs of Reeducation

TUAN HOANG,
Pepperdine University, California
LOST, MOURNED, AND RETRIEVED
Exilic Nostalgia in the Music of Vietnamese Refugees

VINH PHU PHAM,
Bard Early College, New York
PARIS BY NIGHT
And the Making of Vietnamese American Music

MINH X. NGUYEN,
University of California, Riverside
BOLERO
Remaking Pre-1975 Music in Post-Socialist Vietnam

THE RISING ASIA REVIEW OF BOOKS

JACKSON MATTOCKS,
Dalhousie University, Halifax
LITERARY ESSAY
JAPANESE AND TRINIDADIAN IMMIGRANTS
Tolerance, Intolerance, and Goodwill in Soucouyant and Snow Falling on Cedars

REVIEW BY SALIKYU SANGTAM,
Tetso College, Nagaland
Holly High (ed.), Stone Masters: Power Encounters in Mainland Southeast Asia
(Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2022), 346 pages.
OUT OF STONES WE CAME
And Stones We Worship

REVIEW BY PFOKRELO KAPESA,
University of Allahabad
Chen Tienshi Lara, Stateless, translated by Louis Carlet (Singapore: NUS Press, 2023),
256 pages.
THE UNBEARABLE UNJUSTNESS
Of Being Stateless

REVIEW BY ANIRUDDHA BABAR,
Tetso College, Nagaland
Jaishankar, Why Bharat Matters (New Delhi: Rupa, 2024), 256 pages.
INDIA’S GLOBAL RENAISSANCE
In an Evolving World Order

Front Cover Photo Credits:

  • (Top left): Khánh Ly performed Nam Lộc’s song “Sài Gòn ơi Vĩnh Biệt [“Dear Saigon, Farewell!”] in 1978. Photo by the courtesy of The JIMMY TV, April 26, 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MibpkJqcOKk.
  • (Bottom left): Camp songwriter Thục Vũ. Vann Phan, “‘Tình Mùa Chinh Chiến,’ nhạc lính đáng yêu của Thục Vũ và Vũ Hoài” [‘Love in the Season of War,’ beloved soldiers’ music by Thục Vũ and Vũ Hoài], Người Việt (November 26, 2022). Photo by the courtesy of Người Việt. https://www.nguoi-viet.com/cuu-chien-binh/tinh-mua-chinh-chien-nhac-linh-dang-yeu-cua-thuc-vu-va-vu-hoai
  • (Top right): Paris by Night co-host Nguyễn Ngọc Ngạn interviewing Như Quỳnh in Paris by Night 38 (1996). Photo by the courtesy of Thúy Nga and Paris by Night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD78zWek1kQ